LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

It is a comfort to know . . .

On Sunday October 22, I was a guest aboard Yarmouth lifeboat when she was required to answer the tragic call in Christchurch Bay. Although the sea was quiet at the time, I must say that I was...

-STAR HOLIDAY OFF 2 weeks from £279 on Half Board & 3rd week FREE on Bed & Breakfast Also available 4 weeks from £359, 5 weeks from £449 & 6 weeks from £509 Malta, the friendly English speaking island in the...

On the afternoon of 22nd July, 1970, after parting company with the Y.L.A.

chairman homeward bound in his Black Cygnet, I was on passage in our 7-ton sloop Ar-Men from FAbervrac'h bound for Roscoff. It was a fine sunny...

BROADSTAIKS. — Flares were shown from vessels off the North Foreland while a whole gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and heavy squalls of hail, on the 27th January, and, in response, the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton...

FOLLOWING the two balls which were organised by the Belfast Ladies' Lifeboat Guild in the winter and spring, a Fete, lasting a fortnight, was held in June in the Bellevue Gardens, Belfast, which had been kindly lent to the Institution by...

MAY 28TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE ; ILFRACOMBE, DEVON ; LYNMOUTH, DEVON ; AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. A large steamer had caught fire and had sunk after an explosion, but the crew were rescued by patrol vessels. - Rewards : Barry Dock,...

DURING 1937 the Institution gave rewards for the rescue from shipwreck round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland of 524 lives. It is the largest number rescued for nine years. Of those lives 439 were rescued by life- boats and 85 by...

We are a voluntary organisation restoring the old Hartlepool lifeboat, The Princess Royal (Civil Service No.7), back to her original condition.

She is a 46ft Watson class, ON-828, and a gold medal-winning lifeboe There are... - View image in PDF